Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.